Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has allotted portfolios to ministers in his Cabinet, maintaining the Finance division with himself whereas assigning the Irrigation and Bengaluru City Development departments to his deputy DK Shivakumar.
Siddaramaiah took the oath of workplace with Shivakumar and eight ministers on May 20. He subsequently expanded the Cabinet to its full energy by inducting 24 new ministers on Saturday after rounds of discussions with the Congress’ central management.
G Parameshwara, who has beforehand dealt with the Home division, has as soon as once more been allotted the portfolio, MB Patil is the brand new Large and Medium Industries minister whereas KJ Geroge has been given the Energy division portfolio, the Karnataka authorities introduced in a notification launched late on Sunday.
Apart from the Finance division, the chief minister, who has offered 13 state budgets, has stored Cabinet Affairs, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms, Intelligence, Information, IT and BT, Infrastructure Development, and all unallocated portfolios.
Shivakumar has obtained the all-essential Major and Medium Irrigation and Bengaluru City Development, together with the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Bangalore Development Authority, Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Bangalore Metropolitan Region Development Authority and the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited.
Shivakumar, who hails from the neighboring Ramanagara district, has been allotted the Bengaluru City Development division regardless of 5 MLAs from the town being ministers within the Cabinet. The portfolio is essential maintaining in thoughts the upcoming BBMP polls.
HK Patil has been allotted Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Legislation and Tourism whereas KH Muniyappa — a former Union minister for whom that is the primary stint within the state Cabinet — is the brand new Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs minister.
Ramalinga Reddy has been made the minister for Transport and Muzrai. Amid hypothesis that Reddy didn’t need the Transport division, Shivakumar visited his residence and held discussions on Sunday night.
Dinesh Gundu Rao is the Health and Family Welfare minister whereas HC Mahadevappa has been given cost of Social Welfare. Public Works has been allotted to Satish Jarakiholi and Revenue to Krishna Byregowda.
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s son Priyank Kharge is the brand new Rural Development and Panchayati Raj minister, Shivanand Patil has been given Textiles, Sugarcane Development and the Directorate of Sugar, Agricultural Marketing from the Cooperation division.
BZ Zameer Ahmed Khan will take cost of Housing, Wakf, and Minority Welfare whereas Sharanabasappa Darshanapur has been allotted Small Scale Industries and Public Enterprises. Forest, Ecology, and Environment have gone to Eshwar Khandre, Agriculture to N Cheluvarayaswamy, Mines and Geology, Horticulture to SS Mallikarjun, Municipal Administration and Haj to Rahim Khan, and Labour to Santhosh S Lad.
Laxmi R Hebbalkar, the lone lady within the Cabinet, will take cost of the Women and Child Development and the Disabled and Senior Citizens Empowerment portfolios and Sharanaprakash Rudrappa Patil has been allotted the Medical Education and Skill Development portfolio.
Other ministers and their departments embody RB Timmapur (Excise), Okay Venkatesh (Animal Husbandry and Sericulture), Shivaraj Tangadagi (Backward Class, Kannada and Culture), D Sudhakar (Planning and Statistics), B Nagendra (Youth Services, Sports and ST Welfare), KN Rajanna (Co-operation), Suresha BS (Urban Development and Town Planning) and Mankal Vaidya (Fisheries and Ports, Inland Transport).
Madhu Bangarappa will take over the Primary and Secondary Education portfolio, MC Sudhakar will take cost of Higher Education and NS Boseraju has been allotted Minor Irrigation, Science and Technology.
There was some disgruntlement inside the Congress after the Cabinet growth with a number of MLAs, who held aspirations of changing into ministers however missed out, having to be pacified by social gathering leaders. In the May 10 elections to the 224-member meeting, the Congress bagged 135 seats whereas the BJP and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) secured 66 and 19, respectively.
